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ICCWC’s mission is to strengthen criminal justice systems and provide coordinated support at national, regional and international level to combat wildlife and forest crime.
Highlights
From Seizure to Prosecution

ICCWC hosts first global illegal wildlife trade conference. Read more

Launch of World Wildlife Crime Report 2024.
Operation Thunder 2023

Over 2,114 wildlife seizures and 500 arrests as part of Thunder 2023. Read more.

ICCWC at SC77

Read more about illegal trade data, evidence-based interventions & enhanced responses. 

Latest news from ICCWC
NEW: ICCWC Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit

Read the updated version here.

CITES Big Cats Task Force

28 countries come together to discuss illegal trade of 8 big cat species. Read here. 

4th Global Meeting of Wildlife Enforcement Networks (WENs)

Read about the meeting here. 

The 2023 Annual Report highlights the successes and achievements of countries supported by ICCWC in combating wildlife and forest crime.

Read here.

The ICCWC Vision 2030 provides a roadmap that will guide the delivery of ICCWC’s work in the decade to come and enable addressing wildlife crime in a holistic and comprehensive manner. 

The Vision identifies five critical ICCWC outcomes which recognize the importance of both proactive and reactive responses to combating wildlife crime:

a) reduced opportunity for wildlife crime;

b) increased deterrence of wildlife crime;

c) increased detection of wildlife crime;

d) increased disruption and detention of criminals; and

e) evidence-based actions, knowledge exchange and collaboration, as a basis for the achievement of the first four outcomes and to drive ICCWC’s impact.

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The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) is the collaborative effort of five inter-governmental organizations

ICCWC works with officials from across the criminal justice system in countries around the world,  to strengthen these systems and provide authorities with coordinated support to combat wildlife and forest crime.

The partner agencies to ICCWC are the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Secretariat, INTERPOL, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Bank Group (WBG) and the World Customs Organization (WCO). 

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ICCWC considers ‘wildlife’ to include all wild fauna and flora, including animals, birds and fish, as well as timber and non-timber forest products.

‘Wildlife crime’ refers to the taking, trading (supplying, selling or trafficking), importing, exporting, processing, possessing, obtaining and consumption of wild fauna and flora, including timber and other forest products, in contravention of national or international law.

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